Device for holding hats.



B. DIGKENSON.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING HATS.

APPLICATION FILED PBB.23,1912.

1,083,922.. Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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BENJAMIN DICKENSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING HATS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 23, 1912.

Patented J an. 13, 1914.

Serial No. 679,429.

To all @07mm t may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN DicnnN- soN, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Impxi'ovementsin Devices for Holding Hats, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact specification.

My invention relates tq improvements in devices for temporarily holdinghats or other articles, and especially to those used by women forsecuring their hats in trunks, wardrobes, etc., and the particularobjects of my invention are to provide a device which is easilyremovable from and replaced in or on the receptacle or supportcont-aining or holding it, and also to provide means for securelyholding and locking it in place. I attain these objects by the devicewhich I have described in the accompanying specification and illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which like symbols of reference referto like parts throughout the respective views.

In some devices of this class which I have seen, the carrier has beeneither insecurely attached to the support, and so free to move, or elsethe parts necessary for securing it have taken up considerable space andbeen in the way, besides being liable to distort-ion, breaking, andgenerally getting out of order. By my device, however, I am enabled toprovide a means of rigid attachment, taking up very little room andeasily manipulatable, and unlikely to get out of order.

Figure l is an elevation, partly in section, of my hat carrier a partbeing broken away. Fig. 2 is a section of the base o-r stand withcertain connected parts shown in elevation. Fig. 3 is an inverted planview of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the spring intended tosecure and lock the hat carrier to the base.

In Fig. l, 1 is a ball, or form, of more or less globular shape,sometimes made of wire netting or cloth or other pervious material,which is stuffed with cotton, fiber, or other loose substance, and onwhich a hat is intended to be placed and secured by the insertion ofpins. The cover of this ball is intended t-o be placed over a shank orspool 2, provided with a flange on the top 8, a flange on the bottom 3and a lug 4, projecting therefrom. The ball 1 may be secured to theshank or spool 2 by means of wire or cord wrappings around the latter,the

flange 3 preventing the spool from being pulled out of the ball, and thewhole being securely connected together.

The base 5, which may be of any convenient shape, is pro-vided with aslot l0, extending approximately half way across its upper surface. Thisslot, for substantially its whole length, is of the same width as thediameter of the lug 4, but is enlarged at its outer portion to permitthe free insertion of the lug therein. The bottom of the lug 4 isenlarged to form a head or shoulder, which prevents it from beingwithdrawn vertically through the slot l0, and also for another purposeto be mentioned hereafter.

Secured on the under side of the base 5 is a spring 6, riveted orotherwise secured at one end as at 7, and projecting through the base inan aperture 11, which permits a certain amount of play or vert-icalmotion t0 the spring. The spring ends in a projection 9, which enablesit to' be depressed at will. At a point directly beneath the slot 10,the spring is provided with a depression or inclined face of such formthat when the shoulder of the lug 4 impinges against it the spring willbe automatically forced down by the motion of the lug 4, along the slotl0, until t-he shoulder of the lug 4 has passed off the farther edge ofthe spring, when the latter snaps into place against the under side ofthe top of the base 5, and so prevents the retraction or slipping out ofthe lug through the groove l0, until the spring is intentionallydepressed.

I/Vhen it is desired to remove the hat holding device from the base 5,the end of the spring 9 is pushed down, which results in the springitself being so lowered that the shoulder of the lug 4 can pass betweenthe spring 6 and the lower surface of the upper part of the base 5, whenthe device can be removed through the groove l0.

I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any particularform, substance, design, proportion or arrangement of the parts of mydevice, as these may be departed from in various ways without departingfrom the spirit of my invention. But

What I do claim as new herein and desire to protect by Letters Patent,is:

l. The combination of a pervious body; a shank; means for securing thepervious body to the shank; a lug projecting from the shank and havingan enlarged shoulder; a base having a slot extending from its edgeapproximately to its Center; a guard intersecting said slot and adaptedto be displaced by the insertion of the lug in the slot, and adapted toresume its place behind the lug after the passage of the lug, to preventthe dislocation of the lug.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a hat carrier comprising a perviousbody; a shank having an enlarged head enveloped by the pervious body,the exterior end of Which shank constitutes a bearing surface adapted tobear and be supported against a base; a

lug projecting axially from the bearing sur- Jface and provided with anenlarged shoulder; a base provided with a slot in its upper surfaceagainst Which suriace the endV of the shank is adapted to bear; and aspring secured to the base and lying transversely to the slot andadapted to be displaced by the insertion of the lug in the slot, and toretract behind the same to prevent its removal through the slot.

BENJAMIN DICKENSON. Vitnesses:

ROBERT A. PIPER, VERONICA BRAUN.

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